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What C list actor who has not been in anything of consequence but still manages to keep his name in the news almost everyday was spotted this week getting a new cell phone

. From a new company. Without his B list celebrity wife. He was denied for service with the new company and asked if he wanted to use someone as a co-signer. He looked like he would die. He also had to pay in cash. He said there was no way he could use any credit cards and his wife pays all the bills.

@Basil, it's not the price of the cell phone, it's obviously his credit record. They check your credit to give you a cell phone contract. But I would imagine your credit would have to be REALLY bad to be denied!

I wouldn't imagine your credit needs to be any better or worse than for a credit card…and it doesn't take much to put a person in that position: a divorce, a job loss, an illness. I think people are naive about how quickly, and easily, credit can be destroyed (and how hard it is to fix).

They may have offered him a prepaid phone after he couldn't get a regular phone…maybe that's what he had to pay cash for.

From my understanding of cell providers, I don't think they would deny you unless you owe that company money from a previous account and refuse to settle the debt. With bad credit, they will usually just make you pay a hefty deposit and then require payment of most fees that tend to be waived with new contracts (such as activation, new phone etc).

I think because his credit is bad (or he didn't want to use his own credit), they were charging him a lot, in CASH up front. It happens all the time. Pay in cash and you're good, until you don't pay, then they cut you off. But at least they got your $200 to start.

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